Birmingham New Street redevelopment: In numbers

  • Central
The bright atrium Credit: Network Rail

  • Four train operating companies run through the station

  • There is now five times more space at concourse level than before - and it's five times bigger than at London Euston, and equivalent to 13 Wimbledon Centre Courts

  • 12 platforms have been refurbished

  • There are 15 new lifts, serving every platform

  • There are 36 escalators, serving every platform

  • A train arrives or leaves the station every 37 seconds

  • 60% of the rain water harvested from the shiny façade is used to flush all the toilets in the station

Rain water is collected from the exterior to be used to flush toilets Credit: Network Rail

  • 85% of the non-hazardous waste material from the whole renovation project is to be recycled or re-used

  • 1,000 jobs created by John Lewis and Grand Central

  • 1,100 tonnes of steel makes up the façade, using 8,000 panels

A shiny façade in front of the Rotunda Credit: Network Rail

  • 1,200 workers a day on average worked on the site

  • The new atrium is 3,300 square metres, the size of a football pitch

  • 5,000 tonnes of concrete was removed from the old NCP car park, to make way for the first concourse which opened in 2013

  • 7,000 tonnes of concrete was removed from Stephenson Tower

An aerial shot of the new station, where the 12 platforms have also been refurbished Credit: Network Rail

  • 10,000 lorry journeys were saved from the roads by using trains to transport waste material

  • 20,000 tonnes of concrete removed to create space for the atrium

  • 170,000 passengers use the station daily

  • 300,000 is the passenger capacity of the new station

  • 200,000 square feet of retail space makes up Grand Central

  • 250,000 square feet of space in John Lewis

Watch this timelapse video released by Network Rail, showing the building of John Lewis: